Enough of "Symbolic" Dem Votes on Capitol Hill. Stop Acting Like You're Guilty of Something and Take Back the Power.

You don't have the power in congress.

That's why nothing got done.

Vote Republican next time if you want things done.

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Of despicable, collaborating Democons.

Which means, considering how close we are to the abyss, that we best forget about our failed democracy. What then? Troops out now, that's what, whereupon, empowered by our victory over the powers that be, we go on to change the world.

Bravo, Mario Gallegos, if more legislators felt as duty-bound to discharge their responsibilities per their elected charge, we would not be in the mess that currently passes for Congress. Mr. Gallegos possessed a rare opportunity to make the system work as it was designed, however, the Democrats in the Senate would be hard-pressed to come up with 60 votes without some Republican defections.

We can apply the whip to the backs of Democratic legislators until we drop dead of the effort; our castigation of Democrats will not and cannot change the number of votes required to pass any meaningful legislation or resolutions. They, and we are over-the-proverbial-barrel. The key to getting anything done remains the responsibility of the Republican Party and apparently too many of them were paying close attention to the brutal punishment that is delivered to anyone that "bucks" the directives of the "White House".

The "investigations" that are necessary to turn up the filth committed by this Administration are ongoing because that is the extent of what is allowed with power distributed as it currently is. Gonzales should have been impeached, though getting a bill of impeachment out of the House might also prove daunting. The Democrats have better numbers in the House but the party affiliation in the House is not a true measure of where their loyalties lie.

We can fuss and fume about the “spineless Democrats” but at the end of the day it is still up to us to keep the pressure on Congress as a whole. That election in 2006 had a bit of “doctoring” to assist Republicans in challenging races, they stole only the votes they thought they needed so as to not raise suspicions. The “over-votes” and “under-votes” were an embarrassing give-away that their little scheme hadn’t delivered as predicted. The 2008 election results are being manipulated as we watch the latest “Paris, Hilton comedy”. The Federal Prosecutors placed by the Bush Administration are coached to stop the Democratic voter fraud while “vote caging” (eliminating poor and minority voters from the rolls of eligible voters, including some that are serving in the military, in Iraq, and cannot answer letters sent to their last known stateside address) continues in Republican dominated districts. We are the last bastions of this Democratic Republic and it is up to us to keep clamoring for justice.

It's plain to see that all politicians, regardless of party, owe their lofty positions to large corporate backers. So, all the sniveling about the Democrats not having the votes to clean up Washington is meaningless. The only way, the criminal Bush Administration will ever be held to account, is when enough angry citizens hit the streets with pitchforks and torches, and tar and feathers! No government, regardless how corrupt, is immune from public pressure! When enough citizens finally get up off their asses and take matters into their own hands, only then will things finally change for the better! Trying to vote the crooks out is hopeless. All you get is more crooks! It's the way politics is set up in this country. The rich and powerfull will always control the rest of the people as long they are allowed to do so! It's up to the citizens of this country to protect the constitution! The politicians will not do so. Consider the fact that congress violates their oath of office every day by not taking action when criminal activity takes place in plain view! Wake up America! Take note at what is happening before it's too late! It MUST BE OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE THAT THE COUNTRY IS ON THE WRONG TRACK! Do something now! The alternrative will be to bend over and kiss your collective asses goodby!

Every time I read another whiny screed like this, I mourn for the lack of civics education in American schools.

Did anybody pay attention to the "symbolic" no-confidence vote against Freddo yesterday? Once again, there were not enough Republicans willing to vote for cloture. I heard at least three "progressive" commentators breeze past this fact, and then demand to know why the Dems were bothering with the no-confidence vote instead of just impeaching the bastard!

Why? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE VOTES, THAT'S WHY! Until enough Republicans find consciences and vote to break filibusters in the Senate and overturn King George's vetoes, the Dems can do nothing to force the Emperor's hand on anything. The only thing they can do is try to ratchet up pressure on their Republican counterparts until they're finally more afraid of the electorate than they are of the Bush Crime Family, and I'm afraid that will take some time, kids.

The time-honored circular firing squad so beloved of progressives is the real gutlessness here. Every time somebody blathers on about how the Dems lack courage and are no better than the GOP, Karl Rove smiles. He knows that the biggest lie the right wing conspiracy has ever promulgated, the most effective suppressor of votes, is the myth that all politicians are alike, they're all crooks, there's no point in voting for any of them. Next time you are tempted to write another piece like this, please pick up a civics book instead.

Democrats aren't afraid to vote for their convictions. They ARE voting for their convictions. They INTEND to fast track "free trade" and finish the decimation of America Labor.

My congresswoman, Susan Davis, voted for to continue funding in SPITE of enormous pressure from her constituents. If you look at her top campaign contributors, you'll see they include defense contractors General Dynamics, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. She can vote on non-binding resolutions all day, but when crunch time comes, she will snuggle comfortably in the pockets of her corporate campaign contributors.

Hillary Clinton has predicted she will leave the troops in Iraq throughout her presidency. She is also quite pro-corporation/anti-labor.

Please don't make the mistake that the democrats lack the courage of their convictions. What you are seeing is exactly what they actually stand for. And I'm sorry to say it too. I hope this party can be returned to the standards of FDR, but I'm afraid this country's too far gone for that.

Mike G.
Quadkite.com

Gave us the world record prison population of mostly poor minorities. A prison population that changed the outcomes of both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections in favor of the GOP. But the Democrats can't investigate one Republican for treason. The Democratic "majority" can't even put through a meaningless no confidence vote against the attorney general.

Democrats are nothing but the butt babes of the GOP.

Democrats have the majority. The Jim Crow right-wing has the control.

The Democrats should rightfully be called the Neville Chamberlaine Party.

It is a right-wing authoritarian nation. Its democracy no more than a facade to 1. keep children docile until they become economic slaves to the system and 2. keep the rest of the world from stomping this proto-fascist nation into the dirt.

It simply does not matter which "party" holds any majority. Its the same Jim Crow thugs running things from the back rooms of the capitals of America.

There has not been a real and valid election in the United States of America in my 54-years. And I don't expect to see one in my lifetime.

Democracy cannot restore itself once subverted. It must be restored from the outside or with insurrection. George Washington saw this and tried to warn us.

"Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally."

http://mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/pol/gw.htm

When we got rid of Nixon there was a flicker of hope that we might actually become the promise our Founding Fathers intended, but then the Ray-gun Revolution brought us back to the 18th Century and we stumbled forward and backwards since till we got g.w. bush, the worst possible person to have in the worst possible place in the history of mankind.

I do believe because of bush&co. we have hastened the very clear and dangerous possibility the extermination of our species to a few short years.

Call me extremist, but could anyone prove this possibility wrong? I don't consider myself extremist, but from my vantage point extremist and seemingly insane people are in control of not only our country but other counties too. When in the past the alarmists would scream that "the end is near" humans didn't have the ability to actually destroy their species.

We do now.

And we can't even get rid of the people doing it. We can’t even get “no confidence” meaningless statements passed, let alone bring these criminal bastards to account for their crimes. We’re doomed. We don’t have the time left to stop the environmental and economic tsunami that’s about to crash on our shores. We’re already feeling the effects, and it’s just started. When (not “if”) bush&co. attack Iran the tsunami will crash at that time. The “if” comes in if we can stop them from continuing their march towards Armageddon by stopping them from committing any more aggressive attacks.

But, hating to sound like a prophet of doom, with history as my judge, I don’t have much hope of this happening. The most recent example of my exasperation was the Congressional cave-in to continue the funding of an illegal occupation, against the wishes of the vast majority of the people and one everyone knows is not just wrong, but carries all the heinous crimes one can commit in war.

Buy the time the people wake-up and get angry enough to do something about it, it will be too late. We’re most likely already past the “fail-safe” point. And even if we do somehow survive bush&co. and bring them to justice we have the wrath of the rest of the world to contend with. And I doubt seriously that there are that many Albania’s out there.